Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa - Couverture souple

Van Wyk, Braam

 
9781770079113: Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa

Synopsis

This comprehensively updated and expanded edition of the region's best-selling ?eld guide to trees offers much, much more than the highly successful ?rst edition. Fully updated text (including additional species entries) and distribution maps, numerous new photographs and a new 87-page section of full-tree photographs makes this well-loved guide even more indispensable in the ?eld. Southern Africa has a rich variety of tree species, with an estimated 2 100 indigenous species and more than 100 naturalised aliens. Field guide to trees of Southern Africa describes and illustrates more than 1 000 of these, focusing on trees that are the most common and most likely to be encountered. Species are logically arranged in 43 groups based on easy-to-observe leaf and stem features, and each account is illustrated by full-colour photographs of the plant's diagnostic parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of the plants.

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À propos des auteurs

Braam van Wyk is a member of the lecturing staff at the University of Pretoria, where he is a professor in the Department of Plant Science. He did his tertiary training at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and the University of Pretoria. Braam is a plant taxonomist and has authored or co-authored numerous publications on the botany of southern Africa, including several books. Among his published works are Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Highveld (Struik, 1997), How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa (Struik, 2007) and Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (Struik, 2013).

The late PIET VAN WYK was a biologist who worked for three decades as a researcher in the Kruger National Park. He authored several popular books on southern African trees.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781868259229: Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1868259226 ISBN 13 :  9781868259229
Editeur : Struik Publishers, 1997
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